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by Craig Sams  Publisher Comments The latest in Disinformation's popular series of gift-priced and mini-sized books, The Little Food Bookfollows the success of The Little Earth Book, tackling issues on our own plates-those affecting the food we eat: genetic modification, farming... (read more)  List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Steve Ellis Publisher Comments "Soils and Environment" examines the fundamental importance of soils. Combining practical analysis and interpretation with a theoretical approach, the authors discuss the properties of soils, debate the environmental factors that influence their... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Raymond Rogers Publisher Comments Central to understanding why environmental problems are so difficult to "solve" is the recognition that the structures and processes of modern life, and the structures and processes which cause environmental problems, are identical. The increasing... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $4.18 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dean Edw Abrahamson Publisher Comments Examines the causes and effects of global climate change.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Blymyer Engineers Book News Annotation Describes the federal requirements for environmental programs in order to provide corporate managers of trucking and railroad operations with the information they need to develop and maintain corporate policies, thereby minimizing the environmental... (read more) List Price $146.00 Your price $33.00 (Used - Ring Binder) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Bailey Publisher Comments In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the planet. But, surprisingly, some of their answers -- and even the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mayer Hillman Publisher Comments Praise for The Suicidal Planet "If anyone knows a better way to save the planet from runaway global warming, they better speak up."- Fred Pearce, author of When the Rivers Run Dry "Mayer Hillman . . . has come up with solutions that are hard to... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Raymond L Bryant Publisher Comments Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Peet Publisher Comments This book examines the roots of the present environmental crisis in the neoclassical economics upon which modern industrial society is based. The author explains that only when we view ourselves in the larger context of the global ecosystem and accept... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Foster Publisher Comments This important book relates the history of natural and human-induced changes that have occurred in the past one thousand years in New England and explores the modern ecology of this largely forested landscape. Written by leading biological, physical, and... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerome K Vanclay Publisher Comments What is the power of a collectively imagined future? Women in rural Zimbabwe imagine a future of prosperity and education for their children and then they take collective action to care for the wild grasses that guarantees their livelihood as broom... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Green Media Group Publisher Comments Updated and expanded with more than 1,100 independently reviewed local listings of green businesses, retailers, service providers, and organizations in the Los Angeles area, this guide is an indispensable reference for eco-friendly shopping. It also... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter W Huber Publisher Comments The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about energy. But according to Peter Huber and Mark Mills, the things we "know" are mostly myths. In The... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Vaillant 
Powells.com Staff Pick Set in the vast wilderness of British Columbia, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed encompasses suspense, history, and mythology in equal parts. It is also the saga of the loss of a sacred, beautiful, and botanically unique Sitka... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alanna Mitchell Publisher Comments One hundred and fifty years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, award-winning environmental reporter Alanna Mitchell set out to retrace the idea of evolution and grapple with the fact that a massive extinction of the planet's species was... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Natl Academy Press Publisher Comments Scientists have long sought to unravel the fundamental mysteries of the land, life, water, and air that surround us. But, as the consequences of humanity's impact on the planet become increasingly evident, governments are realizing the critical... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jules Pretty Publisher Comments * Readable, moving essays on our relationship to the earth and the other creatures in it* A reminder of just how much we consume and what effect this has on our worldFor most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mathis Wackernagle Publisher Comments Equipped with useful charts and thought-provoking illustrations, this book introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth and presents an exciting and powerful tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kennedy Graham Book News Annotation A group of international political figures discuss the development and promotion of a new paradigm of international problem-solving based on a foundation of joined planetary interest instead of atomized national interests. Annotation c. Book News... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christoph Hallowell
Publisher Comments " Holding Back the Sea is exceptionally well-written, pages of poetic descriptions of bayou scenery, small towns and Louisiana people make it worth the effort to read."... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $4.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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